A security summit  on ending the Boko Haram menace is coming up today in Abuja  amidst  increasing signs of closer military cooperation between regional powers and international support. Read More…

Brazil’s acting president Michel Temer named a business-friendly cabinet Thursday after his former boss Dilma Rousseff was suspended from office, ending 13 years of leftist rule. Read More…

Tears flowed when Dilma Rousseff addressed the nation for a last time Thursday before driving away from Brazil’s presidential palace to the chanting of supporters. Read More…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump  has softened his stance on temporarily barring Muslims from travelling to the United States  if elected in the November 2016 elections. Read More…

Brazil’s Senate is having a marathon debate on  whether President Dilma Rousseff should face a full impeachment trial, with the majority of the senators have already said they will vote against the president. Read More…

British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has been caught on camera ridiculing Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt” country. Read More…

Waldir Maranhao, the interim speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, on Tuesday has said that he has reversed a decision to annul the impeachment of the Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff. Read More…

A huge wildfire raging in the Canadian province of Alberta is growing further and could spill in to neighbouring Saskatchewan, officials say. Read More…

Rescuers are trying to reach 35 construction workers who have been buried under rocks and mud in China, state media report. Read More…

A seven-year-old pupil born without hands has won a United States national handwriting competition. Read More…

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President Barack Obama on Friday warned the White House race is not a “reality show” and called for Donald Trump’s record to be held to close scrutiny as the billionaire seeks to rally divided Republicans behind him. Read More…

Sadiq Khan, the son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver, on Saturday emerged the first Muslim to be elected mayor of London. Read More…

With no one left in the Republican field, Donald Trump is the party’s only contender, while Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders continue to fight for the Democratic Party ticket. Read More…

Donald J. Trump won Indiana’s Republican primary on Tuesday, moving him closer to claiming the party’s presidential nomination and delivering a devastating blow to Senator Ted Cruz and other Republicans hoping to stop him. Read More…

Angered by the incessant violent activities orchestrated by suspected Fulani herdsmen across the country, Nigerian residents in the United Kingdom have staged a protest at the UK Westminister Parliament. Read More…

North Korea sentenced a South Korean-born American citizen to 10 years of hard labour for subversion and espionage, a North Korean official told journalists. Read More…

Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has won re-election, securing 93.7 percent of votes cast in an April 24 poll to extend his 37-year rule over the Central African oil producer, a government statement said on Thursday. Read More…

Former world footballer of the year George Weah will make a second bid to become president of Liberia when current leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s final term ends next year. Read More…

In a rare formal policy speech, Republican front-runner Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to put American security “above all else” if elected president, warning allies they would be left to defend themselves if they don’t “pay their fair share.” Read More…

The Brazilian Senate’s Special Commission on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, has approved its first meeting that it would vote on May 6 on whether the process should continue or not. Read More…

Reports yesterday said Belgium has extradited Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to face trial in France. Read More…